Chapter 4 Building an Analysis Business Process Model

Selecting data for a flow or a message format

You can select data transported by process flows, resource flows and message formats from the Data tab of their respective property sheet.

Each time you select a data from the list, it is added to the Data tab of the flow or message format property sheet and is no longer displayed in the list of available data.

Steps To select data for a flow or a message format:

  1. Double-click a process flow, a resource flow or a message format symbol in the diagram to open its property sheet.
  2. Click the Data tab and click the Add Data tool to open a data selection list.
  3. Select a model or package from the list located at the top part of the Selection dialog box.
  4. Select one or several data.
  5. Click OK to close the selection list.

    The selected data are added to the Data tab of the flow, resource flow or message format property sheet and are no longer displayed in the available data selection list.
  6. Click OK to close the property sheet.

Note   Viewing the list of data transported by a flow or a message format
You can view in the diagram the list of data transported by a flow by selecting Tools→Display Preferences→Flow (or Resource Flow) and select the Data List check box. The list of data is displayed on the flow in the diagram or instead the message format symbol.

 

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